Camels in the Sky is an account of a journalist's travels from a rain-rich, tropical part of the world to a decade long discovery of the harsh and forbidding life in the great Arabian desert, pejoratively called the 'Empty Quarter'.
Camels in the Sky is an account of a journalist's travels from a rain-rich, tropical part of the world to a decade long discovery of the harsh and forbidding life in the great Arabian desert, pejoratively called the 'Empty Quarter'.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
V. Muzafer Ahamed is currently the Periodicals Editor of the Kerala-based 'Madhyamam' group. He worked in Saudi Arabia for 13 years for the Jeddah-based 'Malayalam News' daily. He won the Kerala Sahitya Academy prize for travel writing in 2010 and is the author of seven books in Malayalam. He hails from Perintalmanna in Malappuram district of Kerala. 2. P. J. Mathew, the translator, is a bilingual journalist with two decades of experience in English journalism in New Delhi and three decades in Malayalam in Kerala. He oversaw the launching of three newspapers from Kerala and headed the journalism training programmes of three institutions and boasts of a host of leading journalists as their guru. He turned to translation after turning 65, and has brought out six volumes in Malayalam and two in English, This book is his third work of translation.
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Author's Note Translator's Note Introduction Camels in the Sky 1. Water War 2. The Bedouin and the Gaaf Tree 3. Burn Marks of Death 4. Cactuses Drink Moonlight 5. Palpitating 'Fossils' 6. Mirage, Mirage 7. Madman of Rub'ul Khali 8. Hoo Cho r'r'r 9. Blind Camel, Enter Not This Garden 10. On the Trail of Laila 11. Apple Tree on Sinai Slopes 12. Forest without Trees 13. The Hulls of History 14. Footprints of Civilizations 15. Thirsty Waterholes 16. Necropolis 17. People of 'Daratt' Under the Tree 18. Heroines of the Desert 19. Snowfall Turns Camels into Deers 20. Textbooks of History 21. River Emptying into Sand 22. Paradise Scattered 23. Life's Laboratory About the Author and Translator
Author's Note Translator's Note Introduction Camels in the Sky 1. Water War 2. The Bedouin and the Gaaf Tree 3. Burn Marks of Death 4. Cactuses Drink Moonlight 5. Palpitating 'Fossils' 6. Mirage, Mirage 7. Madman of Rub'ul Khali 8. Hoo Cho r'r'r 9. Blind Camel, Enter Not This Garden 10. On the Trail of Laila 11. Apple Tree on Sinai Slopes 12. Forest without Trees 13. The Hulls of History 14. Footprints of Civilizations 15. Thirsty Waterholes 16. Necropolis 17. People of 'Daratt' Under the Tree 18. Heroines of the Desert 19. Snowfall Turns Camels into Deers 20. Textbooks of History 21. River Emptying into Sand 22. Paradise Scattered 23. Life's Laboratory About the Author and Translator
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